Artificial Intelligence May Soon Eliminate Your Trusted Family Doctor Vlad Tverdohleb - iTechPost
go to original July 27, 2015

The Internet has changed the traditional way patients interact with their doctors. Today, many self-resilient and enterprising patients are querying their symptoms on internet search engines. Searching knowledge databases with focus on medicine has become a common practice. But soon, the field of medicine is going to change beyond recognition. Your.MD, a new UK startup may be a real threat for all-purpose medical practitioners.

Your.MD was designed to change the way of online self-diagnosis. While the number of people turning on searching for medical conditions and symptoms online, the major flaws in this method are becoming increasingly evident. For many people without training in medicine a cold sore can sometimes be confused with some new and rare form of leprosy. A mole can look like skin cancer.

There are many ways to scare yourself by trying to self-diagnose your symptoms. It is to get worried and lose sleep by such means. Having such widespread access to medical encyclopedias has its uncontested advantages both also comes with its downside. People with little medical knowledge but great access to the available information online may have also little means of skillfully applying it.

For this reason Your.MD comes to fill a growing demand in an innovative new way. The website employs artificial intelligence in its advances diagnosis system able to eliminate unlikely causes of a disease.

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